Connect File Shares on On-premise machine
In this step, you will mount the File Share as a drive on the On-premise machine and try using it.
Mount File Shares on On-premise machine
- Access the Storage Gateway service management console.
- Click File Shares.
- Click the name of the File Share we created.
- In the information section of the File Share you created, the command you can refer to for mounting the File Share will be displayed.
net use [WindowsDriveLetter]: \\172.31.34.142\s3-instancestoragegw-2023 /user:sgw-3EF01857\smbguest
- On your Windows machine on the On-premise side, use Command Prompt to run the command.
net use [WindowsDriveLetter]: \\<Public IPv4 instance>\s3-instancestoragegw-2023 /user:<Gateway-ID>\smbguest
We will replace [WindowsDriveLetter] with an unused drive letter on the Windows machine on the On-premise side.
We will also replace the IP address with the Public IP address of the EC2 Instance we created.
We will replace the Gateway ID after “user:”
- Enter the Guest password you set up in the Guest access section in the previous part, Press Enter.
- Check in Windows File Explorer and you will see a new Z drive appear.
- Create a file on this drive and check again on the S3 bucket, you will see the file will be synchronized with the S3 bucket.
- Access the S3 created earlier, the file is synchronized.
